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Do you ever feel as if you’ve fallen asleep and woken up to a whole new world order? As if society’s moral compass has shifted while you’ve had your back turned for five minutes?
Let’s take yesterday’s AFL nude photo scandal as a jumping off point (as distinct from the AFL Grand Final rape allegation scandal, or the various NRL sexual assault scandals that have otherwise unfurled this year). I’m talking about the scandal that has seen nude photos of St Kilda captain Nick Riewoldt and his teammates Zac Dawson and Nick Dal Santo, apparently taken by a fellow Saint, plastered all over the world wide web.
What I find myself wondering is the following: When did the team-building process expand to the practice of photographing your fellow players in the altogether?
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An old friend once called me a ‘saint’, such was his lack of insight into my character. On another level, I knew what he was saying, because Christian believers are calling each other saints all the time.
Even the worst sinners call each other saints. It isn’t our inability to face reality; rather, it’s the way we interpret that word.
The impending canonisation of Mary MacKillop has brought the concept of sainthood into the contemporary spotlight, and it has to be admitted that it looks kind of strange.
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Glen says:
@ IMHO. 1) “there probably isn’t’ (a God). Where is the courage of your conviction son? Atheists can’t be unsure on this question and be an atheist. A post-modern worldview might allow you to back away from the classical definition of the word ‘atheism’, either that or you’re buying into… Read more »
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Steely Dan says:
@ True Believer “That of course includes science.” Sensible people do, and sensible people find it to be the single most reliable methodology for testing claims. Unlike faith, which is accepting a claim regardless of lack of evidence, or evidence to the contrary. “How many thousands of time has that… Read more »
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